Leaf Curling Spider, Phonognatha graeffei. Sitting outside her home of a curled up dried leaf hanging from a web. Leaf-curling spiders are day-active

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Leaf Curling Spider, Phonognatha graeffei. Sitting outside her home of a curled up dried leaf hanging from a web. Leaf-curling spiders are day-active orb weavers, protecting themselves from predators by sitting inside their silk-seamed, curled leaf. Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia

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Size: 3400px × 5100px
Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Photo credit: © cbstockfoto / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: arachnida, araneae, araneidae, araneomorphae, australia, australian, brown, buchanan, carol, coffs, copy, copyspace, curling, graeffei, harbour, leaf, nsw, phonognatha, red, south, space, spider, spiders, tetragnathidae, vertical, wales, yellow